Boldness required to drive change, says Modi

New Delhi: In an interaction with IAS officers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that India has not progressed as much as it should have and that countries which achieved independence after India, and faced greater resource constraints than India, have touched new heights of development.

On Monday, during his meeting with the 2015 batch IAS officers, the Prime Minister said boldness is required to drive change, and added that a fragmented administrative arrangement does not allow the collective capabilities of officers to deliver to the optimum level. He said dynamic change is needed to transform the system.

The young IAS officers will work as assistant secretaries in central ministries for three months and will then proceed to join their designated cadres. This is the third batch of rookie officers who will be getting the first hand experience of working in central ministries, an initiative which had been started by the Prime Minister in 2015.

He said that this three month programme of assistant secretaries, is now into its third year, and would have a great impact. He urged the young officers to interact freely with the senior-most officers of the Union Government over the next three months, so that the system could benefit from the combination of their energy and fresh ideas, and the administrative experience of Secretary-level officers.

The Prime Minister asked the young officers to recall their life upto the day of the UPSC result, the challenges they faced; and use the opportunities they will now have, to bring about positive changes in the system, and the lives of the common people.